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No. 323,889. Patented Aug.-4, 1885.

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JOHN WATERSTON SMITH AND CHARLES LEVIETT HOLLAND, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BARBERS COMB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,889, dated August 4-, 1885.

Application filed November 10, 1884.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JoHN WATERSTON SMITH and CHARLEs LEVIETT HOLLAND, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, of the Com- 5 monwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Barbers Combs; and we do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying draw-,

ing, which is a side view of a comb containing our invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented.

Our improved comb is specially intended to be used by barbers or hair-dressers in cutting or dressing the hair of a person, and it has, be-

sides a set, a, of long teeth along one edge of it, another series or set, I), of very much shorter or stub teeth along its opposite edge half or about half the length thereof, or from one end to the middle of such edge. While the longer set of teeth are for combing the hair, the stubteeth are simply for removing from it loose hairs and enabling them to be readily discharged from the comb; Furthermore, the

2 5 comb at one end has several of its longer teeth arranged with their points in a convex curve, as shown at 0, such being to enable the comb to be worked in to concavities of the head, and especially into the spaces back of the ears and 0 neck. As shown, part of one edge of the comb, or that on which the fingers of the hand bear when the comb is in use, is without the stubteeth.

We are aware that it is not new to make 3 5 what are termed fine-tooth combs, for re 4 moving dandruff from hair, with two ranges of teeth, those of one range being equal or about equal in length to those of the other. e therefore do not claim such. We are not 0 aware, however, that a barbershair-dressing comb has ever before our invention been con- (No model.)

structed with a range of stub or very short teeth and another of much larger ones, nor with several of the longer. teeth at one end of the comb arranged so that their points may be in a convex curve, as and for the purpose herein described.

We are also aware of the improvement in combs represented in the United States Patent No. 80,833, in which a double comb is shown as composed of two separate combs coupled together at their backs, so that they may be detached from each other and each used separately from the other. Neither of such combs is provided with stub teeth such as are used in our comb.

We therefore claim as an improved article of manufacture- 1. Abarbers hair-dressin g comb in one piece of material, and provided at one edge with a set of combing-teeth and at the other with one of very much shorter or stub teeth, all

being substantially as set forth.

2. A barbers hair-dressing comb having several of its teeth near one end of it in one plane with each other, and arranged so that their points shall range in a convex curve, as set forth, the remainder of the set having their points in a straight line, or substantially so, as represented.

3. Abarbers hair-dressin g comb in one piece of material, and provided at one edge with a s set of teeth and at the other with a set of very much shorter or stub teeth, as described, extending from one end onlyto or about the mid- 7 5 dle of the comb, all substantially as represented.

JOHN WATERSTON SMITH.

CHARLES LEVIETT HOLLAND. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY,

E. B. PRATT. 

